<p>Does anyone know how the roommate selection process works?</p>
<p>Is it a questionaire? Random? Can we request roommates if we want to?</p>
<p>Thanks!!!</p>
<p>Whoa, way in advance! </p>
<p>Ok, so in a few months (yes, a few months) you will receive a big packet of forms to fill out from Smith. One will be your housing form, where you can mark areas of campus you want to live in in preference order. Also on this form there’s a box (or there was 5 years ago. ACK! five years!) that says “Do you want a double room even if a single room is available?” If you’re really sold on having a roommate, you check that box. If you don’t check it, you might get a roommate anyway. </p>
<p>Also the form asks questions like: are you a late sleeper, do you listen to music when you study, etc. There are maybe 5-7 questions and you just check the box that applies. </p>
<p>Finally there’s a write-in section. This would be where you could request a specific person to be your roommate or where you could say “IF I DON’T LIVE IN HAVEN HOUSE I WILL DIE”. They try to honor your requests, but it’s not always possible. With housing you kind of get what you get, and then there is a three month housing freeze and after that you can try to change houses/rooms.</p>
<p>Thanks S&P…myself and another CCer were just discussing it and we were curious!!</p>
<p>Yes, we’re wayyy in advanced…but we’re just SOOOO excited!!!</p>
<p>The roommate box was still there last year. My D didn’t want a roommate and although she didn’t say it on the form her selection of campus area and self descriptions leaned that way and she ended up in a single since her house has no doubles. No gaurantee though but they matched her well and she ended up in one of her first choice houses.</p>
<p>What house should you request if you want a single?</p>
<p>The larger the house, the more likely you’ll have a single. King and Scales houses have all singles except for a few suites. Cutter and Ziskind also have a lot of singles.</p>
<p>Thank you, SmithieandProud! I hope I need this information some day soon 
::fingers crossed for friday::</p>
<p>If Friday is awesome, I’m hoping that the people assigning rooms look at my fill-in section, because I will most certainly write “IF I AM IN CUTTER OR ZISKIND, I WILL MOST LIKELY DIE.”, and maybe write something about Sessions and Park being the best houses ever. Haven/Wesley, too.</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>^I think you took the words pretty much right out of my mouth. :D</p>
<p>Speaking as a two-year Cutter resident and former President and Vice President of Cutter House, I think you should both try to be open minded. Granted, I thought I would die when I found out I was in Cutter, but it ended up being a great house, I made all my close Smith friends there, I ran the house council, I spearheaded a Cutter Beautification drive, and I CHOSE to live there as a sophomore. </p>
<p>Just remember, houses are what you make of them. The most beautiful house can seem like a prison if you don’t fit in there. The ugliest house can be the best of homes.</p>
<p>Very good points, S&P, and if I go to Smith, I do intend to be extremely open-minded about my housing options. I don’t think I can stop myself from liking some houses more than others, though, at this point. Some are just so beautiful.</p>
<p>@Smithie - I knooow. I try to be open-minded, but obsessing over Smith isn’t helping. I always tend to pick favorites, and I hate it. I suppose being in either wouldn’t be anywhere near the end of the world, as being in Smith alone is amazing! If I get placed in Cutter/Ziskind (again hoping that Friday is the best day ever), I’ll probably be a tad disappointed initially, but I’ll get over it. =)</p>
<p>I knew seniors who had doubles in Haven-Wesley, and it wasn’t by choice (okay, that year was an off year, but frequently there were a few juniors in doubles). There are pluses to living in houses like Cutter and Ziskind. And Cutter and Ziskind get lot of sunlight…</p>
<p>I DEFINITELY want a roommate! Will I most likely get one?</p>
<p>Yes. Especially if you check the box that says that you want one even if a single is available. It’s possible for first-years to have singles, but it isn’t really incredibly common, most do have roommates unless they are in one of the all-singles houses or Smith was able to accomodate their request.</p>
<p>We should start searching CC for possible roommates! LOL</p>
<p>Anyone know if the doubles in the Quad are small? I’d really like to have a roommate, but not if we can barely move. I stayed overnight in a double in Capen and it was more than twice the size of my room haha.</p>
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<p>It depends. Some are small, some are quite sizable. Some houses have rooms with a fairly uniform room size, and some don’t. This is true all over campus, and not just in the Quad.</p>
<p>^^ Yes, in a lot of houses, rooms can vary widely even within the house. Particularly in any of the older houses which were outfitted with maid’s quarters, rooms in one section of the house may be fairly large, while rooms in another part are tiny. When I lived in Chase, three of my friends had very large rooms with old fireplaces in them (bricked over now, of course) and one had a room in the same hall, right next to the others, that was teeny tiny.</p>
<p>When I did housekeeping in Comstock (in the Quad), I was amazed by how tiny the maid’s quarters doubles were compared to doubles elsewhere in the house. It shouldn’t be that surprising, as I used to live in a pretty sizable double next door to what may have been the smallest single on campus (in Wesley).</p>